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RUSSELL D. HOFFMAN, OWNER AND CHIEF PROGRAMMER, THE
ANIMATED SOFTWARE CO.
P.O. Box 188006
Carlsbad, CA 92009
Phone:(800) 551-2726
or:(619) 720-7261
America Online:RUSSELL DH
CompuServe:70743,1226
Suggested Readings for people who like P11:
The following books have been particularly helpful to
the author, and he recommends them to anyone who wants to
increase their knowledge of the particular areas covered:
ANIMALS IN MOTION and THE HUMAN FIGURE IN MOTION,
Eadweard Muybridge, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY.
The original and still the best. In the late 1800's Mr.
Muybridge took carefully timed photographs of animals and
people showing a wide variety of activity. These two books
contain hundreds of his sequences, many of which have been
used for the demos that accompany this program, and are the
basis for the horse animation on the right-hand edge of this
reference.
THE ANIMATORS WORKBOOK, Tony White, Watson-Guptill
Publications, New York, NY, 1986. This book shows important
techniques for drawing animated cartoon figures, for making
motion look real, and so on. Not computer-oriented, it is an
invaluable aid to any animator.
CHUCK AMUCK, Chuck Jones, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989.
One of the original directors of Warner Brothers cartoons.
Need I say more? Great book.
THAT'S NOT ALL, FOLKS!, Mel Blanc, Warner Books, 1988.
The late Mel Blanc was the voice for Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig,
and other Warner Brothers cartoon characters. This book
offers insight into many aspects of cartoon creation. If
only it came with a sound disk!
APPLIED CONCEPTS IN MICROCOMPUTER GRAPHICS, Bruce A.
Artwick, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Mr.
Artwick is the original author of FLIGHT SIMULATOR which
should be enough to convince anyone that he knows what he's
doing! A very readable and fact-filled book covering many
topics in computer graphics, giving algorithms,
considerations, and so forth.
IBM PC & XT ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE / A GUIDE FOR
PROGRAMMERS, Leo J. Scanlon, Brady Communications Company,
Inc. New York, NY, 1985. Of all the books on Assembler
programming techniques that the author read to learn how to
control the PC, this one was by far the best.
PC INTERN, Michael Tischer, Abacus. Grand Rapids, MI.,
1992. Over 1000 pages that really contain over 1000+ pages
of technical information. A truly wonderful book,
Other useful and recommended books, in no particular
order:
PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO PC & PS/2 VIDEO SYSTEMS, Richard
Wilton, Microsoft Press, 1987.
PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO THE EGA AND VGA CARDS, Richard F.
Ferraro, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1988.
PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO THE EGA/VGA, George Sutty and
Steve Blair, Brady Books, 1988.
ADVANCED MS-DOS, Ray Duncan, Microsoft Press, 1986.
ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE SUBROUTINES FOR MS-DOS COMPUTERS, Leo
J. Scanlon, Tab Books, Inc., Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1986.
ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING FOR THE IBM PERSONAL
COMPUTER, David J. Bradley, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, 1984.
ASSEMBLER FOR THE IBM PC AND PC-XT, Peter Abel, Reston
Publishing Company, Inc., Reston, VA, 1984.
ADVANCED ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE ON THE IBM-PC, Steven
Holzner,Brady Books, NY, 1987.
iAPX 86/88, 186/188 USER'S MANUAL, PROGRAMMER'S
REFERENCE, Intel Corporation, 1986.
BLUEBOOK OF ASSEMBLY ROUTINES FOR THE IBM-PC & XT,
Christopher L. Morgan, The Waite Group, NY, 1984.
FUNDAMENTALS OF IBM PC ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE, Al Schneider,
Tab Books, Inc, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1984.
THE IBM PC-DOS HANDBOOK, Richard Allen King, Sybex,
Berkeley, CA, 1983.
PROGRAMMER'S PROBLEM SOLVER FOR THE IBM PC, XT & AT,
Robert Jourdain, Brady Books, 1986.
THE PETER NORTON PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO THE IBM PC,
Peter Norton, Microsoft Press, Bellevue, WA, 1985.
INSIDE THE IBM PC, Peter Norton, Robert J. Brady Co.,
Bowie, MD, 1983.
SYSTEM BIOS FOR IBM PC/XT/AT COMPUTERS AND COMPATIBLES,
Phoenix Technical Reference Series, Addison Wesley
Publishing Company, Inc., 1989.
THE IBM-PC FROM THE INSIDE OUT, Murray Sargent III and
Richard L. Shoemaker, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company,
Inc., 1986.
COMPUTE!'s Mapping the IBM-PC and PCjr, Russ Davies,
COMPUTE! Publications, Inc., Greensboro, NC, 1985.
MS-DOS (VERSIONS 1.0 - 3.2) TECHNICAL REFERENCE
ENCYCLOPEDIA, Microsoft Reference Library, Redmond, WA,
1986.
EGA/VGA, A PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE GUIDE, Bradley Dyck
Kliewer, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1990.
DOS 5: A DEVELOPERS GUIDE, Al Williams, M & T Books,
Redwood City, CA, 1991.
BIT-MAPPED GRAPHICS, Steve Rimmer, Windcrest (McGraw-
Hill), Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1990.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MS-DOS 5.0, Creative Business
Communications, Spring Valley, NY, 1991
Equipment Used to Create P11:
The following products are used to create and maintain
the program and it's documentation, or just to keep things
running smoothly at P11 ENTERPRISES. All have worked
reliably, efficiently and effectively and are recommended.
Most of these names are trademarked by the companies
mentioned:
Source code is written entirely in Assembler for speed
and compactness. It is compiled and linked together using
MICROSOFT's MACRO ASSEMBLER (MASM) version 6.
Our current development operating system is IBM's DOS
version 4.01.
Source code is edited using BRIEF version 2, from
SOLUTION SYSTEMS, South Weymouth, MA. Nothing I've seen
comes close.
The manual was created with MICROSOFT WORD version 5.
Special thanks to HEWLETT-PACKARD for making good
equipment and for aiding this developer.
Press releases, brochures and newsletters are created
with GEOWORKS ENSEMBLE from GEOWORKS, Berkeley, CA.
We keep our hard disk clean and happy and convert
bitmapped fonts to bitplane fonts with THE NORTON UTILITIES
ADVANCED EDITON version 4.5 from PETER NORTON COMPUTING,
INC., Santa Monica, CA.
We keep RAM use by other programs to a minimum with
QUARTERDECK EXPANDED MEMORY MANAGER 386 from QUARTERDECK
OFFICE SYSTEMS, Santa Monica, CA.
A GLARE/GUARD PROFESSIONAL, with VLF/ELF radiation
protection, from OPTICAL COATING LABORATORY, INC. Santa
Rosa, CA protects our eyes from eyestrain and possible more
serious radiation hazards which may be lurking in our
monitors. Highly recommended.
We use a BUFFALO MEMORY MANAGER board for EMM on our XT
system. It also has a TECMAR 16-color ECGA graphics board
and a TANDY color monitor.
On CGA machines we use and like FLICKERFREE, a screen
enhancement program (for text mode) from GIBSON RESEARCH
CORP., Laguna Hills, California.
We use a SUMMAGRAPHICS 1201-A DIGITIZER, from
SUMMAGRAPHICS, Seymour, CT for most graphics tasks.
On Hercules systems we use SOFTGRAF from THE AUTOSCRIBE
CORPORATION, Rockville, MD to run in CGA-emulation mode.
We get online with America Online using GEOWORKS
ENSEMBLE and highly recommend that you do too!
Our mouse is a Microsoft unit.
Our joystick is by CH PRODUCTS, San Marcos, CA.
We compress our disk files with a registered copy of
PKZIP from PKWARE.